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Qalculate! library and CLI
https://qalculate.github.io/
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Random numbers #122

Closed meolic closed 5 years ago

meolic commented 5 years ago

Missing random number generator very much. Without it, not usable in my project - the same for bc and calc, only wcalc includes it. I hope, you can implement random numbers, because your other functions are really great!

hanna-kn commented 5 years ago

A random number generating function has been present since the first versions from 2004.

Use rand for a random floating point number between 0 and 1, or rand(n) for a random integer between 1 and n.

Is there some specific random number feature you're missing. (Perhaps an option to generate many numbers at the same time? This can currently be done by passing a vector to the rand() function, e.g. rand(6,6,6,6,6,6), or using for example genvector(rand(6);1;100;1;x;1), which will return a vector with 100 integers between 1 and 6, but could certainly be simplified.)

meolic commented 5 years ago

Hello,

A random number generating function has been present since the first versions from 2004. Use rand for a random floating point number between 0 and 1, or rand(n) for a random integer between 1 and n.

Thanks a lot! I was simply unable to find this information in your manual, but now I have found it in the Statistics section :-)

https://qalculate.github.io/manual/index.html

Best regards, Robert